Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for November 2011

Explosions in Iran, Gloating in Israel, the West and a Famous Hadith…………..

Mr. Obama’s Muslim Trojan Wars………….

GCC: Salafis and Wahhabi Faux-Liberals Call for a Saudi Anschluss, a Polygamous Tribal Führer?........

Cleansing East Jerusalem, Ethnically Speaking………….

UAE and Trotsky and Shakhboot: A Simple Sensible Emirati Solution for Arab and World Unrest………….

Islamist Leader Abdelilah Benkirane new Morocco PM: Shaik Al Al Shaikh new Saudi PM? Shaikh Ali Salman new Bahrain PM?...........

Is Iran Nuclear-Capable Now?..............

Egypt’s Military Flexes its Muscles, Fires its Guns, Ayatollahs of Cairo………..

The Thrill is Gone in Iran: Seniors Storming another Embassy ……..

A Royal Commission, A Bon Vivant Shifty Minister, Gulf Wahhabi Faux-Liberals, Storming Graceland and Neverland……..

Women of Saudi Arabia, Men of North Korea, ‘Broken Mares’ Syndrome………

Al-Nahayan Democracy: UAE Kangaroo Court Imprisons Academics for Talking Reform………

Arab League Despots Turn Against the Syrian Regime “for Being Despotic”…………

The New Great Libyan Jamahiriya of NATO to Intervene in Syria............

WTF: Does Targeting Bacterial Gas Defenses Allow for Increased Efficacy of Numerous Antibiotics?……

Iranian Rulers Determined to Isolate Themselves…………

Saudi Arabia Appoints an Iranian Ayatollah as Supreme Cleric for Iraq………

The 'GOP Wall' and Family Values and Gingrich: from Iraq to the Rio Grande with Electric Barbed Wires and Cluster Bombs ………….

Illusion of Gulf Arab Reform, the Lethal Price of Petroleum, Qaddafi the Good Repentant Leader …….

A Sinister Axis of Mayhem: O Cluster Bombs, O Cluster Bombs……….

Rude Iranians Threaten to Retaliate if Attacked! White Folks Rights and Colored Folks.........

Follow-Up on Baha’is, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Elvis……..

Progress in Egypt? The Mubarak Junta Appoints an old Mubarak Prime Minister..............

Shaikh bin Goebbels of Bahrain Continues Fibbing on Alarabiya………….

Of Uranium Enrichment and Balance of Power in the Gulf………

Post- Qaddafi Libyan Jamahiriya……………..

A Call on the People’s Democratic Kingdom of (Saudi) Arabia to Guide Egypt………….

Human Rights and Education: Iran and her Baha’is……….

Sadrists Join Hezbollah in Damascus: Pavlov's Dogs of America, Lord Gaga of Free Syria……

No Need for IAEA: Iranians to Exhibit All Their Nuclear Secrets……….

Ahmadinejad Blames Everyone (else) for Everything……….

A Kingdom without Magic: Saudi Forces Kill More Young Citizens in Qatif………..

Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz?.........

An Iranian Iraqi Fairy Tale?.........

Lebanon: Hezbollah Accuses the CIA of Doing its Job………..

The Gulf and Israel: About that Nuclear Threat…………

Big Bad Iranian Wolf: Airlines Under Siege, Merkel’s Wings, Air Force One Next?...........

Hezbollah Deputy Leader Opines on “Molesting” Lebanon, about Cain and Gingrich and Paul………….

Selective “Resoluting" of Muslims: Convenient U N Resolutions, Inconvenient U N Resolutions……….

Of Crude Debates, Crude Sanctions, and Iranian Oil…………..

Salafis of the Israeli IDF………….

Iranian Military Industries: Who Killed Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam……..

A Saudi Conference on “Persian-American” Gulf Security without ‘Iran”: GWTW without Gable…………

Bahrain News Agency Needs a 'No Lie Zone': Al-Nahda of Tunisia, Ban Ki-Moon, Ki-Moon, Ki……..

Prince Ambassador Pissed at UK Media, Missing Tony Blair…………

Fatwa: Saudi Mufti Shaikh Al, Court Clerics Blast ‘Dishonest’ Contractors, Ignore Princes…….

Supreme Irony of Arab Uprisings: from Tunisia to Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf…….

New Tunisia as Old Tunisia: Rejoins the Saudi Counterrevolutionary Bloc…………

Why the US will Sell Weapons of Repression to Bahrain, Bon Bon Vivant………..

Persian Chutzpah! Iranian General Threatens Retaliation if Attacked……………

Reformist Iranian daily Etemad Temporarily Banned, of Mullahs and “Deviants”…….

Islamist “New” Libya Cuts Saif Gaddafi's Fingers, Defies UNSC Resolution 1970……………

Revolt on the Gulf: Bahrain Awaits the Next Foreign Plot…………….

Ménage à Trois at the UN: a Saudi Ambassador, a German Husband, a Very Old Dead Wife, an Iranian Plot………

Rick Santorum on Palestine and Israel: OOOO POTUS………….

Prince Nayef Reforms: Sexy Eyes as a Wahhabi Crime, Woman Blowing Nose in Public is Exciting……….

Sinai and Sauerkraut: An almost Funny, almost Jewish, Side of Henry Kissinger………..

Flickers: Clinton to Burma, Little China of Obama? Qaddafi Redux?…………

Nude Egypt: Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Wael Ghonim, Wael Abbas, Shaikh al-Qaradawi, Tantawi…………..

Shocking News: Israeli Technology Can Cripple Iran but not Hezbollah………….

UAE: the New al-Nahayan Technocracy……………..

Cool Aging Saudi Technocrats: Bin Technocrat al-Saud…………..

Cool New Bahrain Technocrats: Bin Technocrat Al Khalifa...........

Israel more Middle Eastern, more Arab League, more GCC........

Something Fishy in Bahrain, Iran Going Kosher.................

Terrorists in Wonderland: Terror, Terror on the Wall, Which Agency is Behind it All?...................

Bahrain’s Poet Ayat Prize Finalist, Shaikh Khalifa to Join DWTS…………..

Indispensable King, Princes Flipping Falafel in Riyadh, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as Arabian Caddies………

Russia's Wars and Deficits, Chinese Awards, Arab Woody Allen Awards, Prince Yin bin Yang……….

Illusions of Arab Independence: Mohamed Bouazizi vs. the Arab League........

Iran and Yukia Amano: no Chemistry, no Love Lost…………….

GCC Breaking News: Plots in Bahrain, Plots in Kuwait, Hezbollah under Every Bed, Shi’as Occupying Mecca……….

Floating To Loftier EU Afghan Relations: Trade, Aid, War, and Drugs…………

Chutzpah of the Arab League: Saudis and Bahrainis and Emiratis Monitoring Syrian Human Rights……..

From Libya to Syria and Yemen and the Gulf: No-Fly Zones, No Freedom Zones………….

Bahrain Sports: Mixing Soccer, Football, and Torture…………..

Deutschland, Deutschland, Über Alles: European Economy, American Economy…………

Bashar al-Assad, King Abdul, and Jordanian Humor, again………….

Fatwa: Quranic Cure vs. Obamacare, about Freud.............

Egypt Going Back to the Future: New and Old Middle East…….

Insanity Joins Stupidity and Greed: Republicans and the Mother of All Middle East Wars, new Pearl Harbor………

Iranian General Killed in Explosion, Unlikely Spies in Abadan, Bahrain……………

The Other Iran War: MEK, Mossad, Western Intelligence…….

A Favorable Exchange Rate: Palestinians for One Israeli……….

Duqu Hits Iran: Virus Du Jour beats a Shooting War……….

Saudis to Intensify Arms Race and Commission Race within the GCC…….

Prince Salman to “Modernize” Saudi Military, Generate more Commissions for Princes………

American Polls, Locating Nebraska and Bhutan: Israeli Polls, Iranian Missiles, West Bank, Sound Bites………

Bahrain (& maybe Qatar) Uncover another Stupid Terror Plot, about that Embassy Bombing……….

In Old Palestine: British Boys, Jewish Girls, Arab Girls, Zionists, Spies………

WTF: Gingrich Foreign Policy, John-Paul II, Pizza Man, Espousing State-sponsored Terrorism……………

Obama, Palestine, Netanyahu Reading a Telephone Book to a Drunk U.S. Congress……….

Knesset Bill HR 1905: US Congress Going Rogue on Iran………..

Hillary Clinton on Syria, Nasrallah on Syria, Iran on Syria……

Game of Chess: Sanctioning Central Bank of Iran, Sanctioning Grocers of Natanz……………..

Innovative Drug Dealers of Riyadh, American Bankers………

America in Iraq: Missions (Not Yet) Accomplished from Bush to Obama………..

Gulf Arms Race: UAE JDAMS Bunker Busters, Bunkers of Sharjah and Fujairah……

British Islamic Attire Proscriptions and the Questionable Wisdom of Qaddafi……..

A Danish Academic View: Arab Spring, Iranian Spring……………

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